I found the following news article in Flight International mentioning that Airbus will be demonstrating MSN004 in full Emirate colours, at the Dubai Airshow. This will be the first time the A380 will appear in an Airlines full colour scheme.

The most ironic part about this is that MSN004 is equipped with RR while Emirates has chosen EA.

The other ironic part about all of this is the fact that this very same aircraft is destined to go to Ethiad.

Love it when I'm right When I made this exact suggestion about a month ago (around the first flight of the all-white msn004), it was met by several eye-rolling posts from Hamlet69. So... how will you be having your crow, Hamlet? A380-800 : SN 004 Roll Out Pics(by LePousson Oct 11 2005 in Civil Aviation)a

Quoting WINGS (Thread starter):I found the following news article in Flight International mentioning that Airbus will be demonstrating MSN004 in full Emirate colours, at the Dubai Airshow. This will be the first time the A380 will appear in an Airlines full colour scheme.

I hope they paint it at night and the painters confuse EK colors with KLM colors

Is it me or has 'time' made the A380 look much nicer??? It was hard to grasp such a monstrosity of a plane, at first... but now it just seems much more 'normal' and every day. It's becoming more pleasant to the eyes into something really nice looking. Love the wings and the tail... the nose still is hard to like.

I remember reading that when the 747 was touring for the Paris Airshow, Pan Am, the launch customer, wanted its logo painted on the test aircraft, since it had ordered 25 747s. However, Boeing nixed the idea and flew the aircraft in its own colors.

How times have changed!

SparkingWave

Flights to the moon and all major space stations. At Pan Am, the sky is no longer the limit!

Quoting Scorpio (Reply 14):Quite a difference between suggesting a company could paint a plane a certain way and speculating about complicated things like break-even points, weight issues and what no, don't you think?

So I'm afraid you're just grasping at straws

So you have the ultimate wisdom of what is okay to speculate and what is not okay to speculate. Are you god?

Using your logic of what one should or should not be speculating, I don't think Airbus would be building the 380 now.

If we as human beings don't speculate, we probably would not be much better than other animals.

If investors don't speculate, what the world economy would be like?

There are fact- and logic-based speculations. There are random speculations. There are good speculations. And there are bad speculations. You can either ignore them or debate about them. But you can't tell people what they can or can't speculate. If you can speculate, no matter what it is, then others can, too. You don't define the standard for everyone.

Quoting A360 (Reply 7):Will they paint(apply a sticker) in the bottom part of the aircraft, like on the new Emirates 77W's? I guess that is a new feature introduced in the paint scheme for all EK planes from now on.